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When we are just getting used to Twitter and Facebook, Email and SPAM, along comes "The Internet of Everything" (IoE) where everything -- well almost everything -- is connected to everything else.<p>Goldman Sachs calls it the 3rd wave, and points out that while:<p>The 1990s' fixed Internet wave connected …

A simple test claims to be able to make two people fall head-over-heels in love, by helping them seem vulnerable to each other. Why not give it a try?<p>The path to true love just got a whole lot smoother.<p>The key? To ask someone the 36 questions below - and answer them yourself. Doing this, …

For the closed card sort on Yelp’s homepage, we asked participants how often they used Yelp, and how often they used the search filters, so that we could filter our data based on users with more or less experience. Knowing how many people used search filters would also give us an insight into how …

Our brains are busier than ever before. We’re assaulted with facts, pseudo facts, jibber-jabber, and rumour, all posing as information. Trying to figure out what you need to know and what you can ignore is exhausting. At the same time, we are all doing more. Thirty years ago, travel agents made our …

The ChampPhaidon Design Classics: 001–999.<p>Even with ample lot size, one Boulder couple opted to go small with their new home.<p>We’ve all seen interior design that almost brings us to the point of being ill.<p>The ads in the real estate section of the Sunday New York Times are a barometer of perceived …

Some assembly required<p>Marvel Studios has made it a selling point that every frame it produces lives in the same continuous universe. So what if you wanted to watch it in order? Not based on release dates but the narrative itself — from a 2987 BC flashback in <i>Thor: The Dark World</i> through the Battle …

If you’re building a website with WordPress or a similar CMS, you’ll find it relatively easy to use and update – but what about setting it up in the first place? Webmasters still have to set up their host servers, upload files via FTP and wait for DNS to update before their projects can go …

Taxi-app firm Uber has been fielding plenty of criticism this month, after one of its executives’ claims that the company might plough money into investigating its critics within the media were reported, then another was caught accessing the personal data of a journalist to make a point.<p>What …

<b>Winning tip: Junibacken</b><p>This is an interactive playground of Scandinavian children’s stories, including a “story train” through the tales of Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking. I sat for nearly two hours while my youngest played cooking in Moominmamma’s kitchen. With food and a walk …

Two economists share what they've learned from tracking airfare's seemingly inscrutable fluctuations.<p>How airlines price tickets is a source of many myths and urban legends. These include tips about the best day of the week to buy a ticket, last-minute discounts offered by the airlines, and the …

Just another day in the office for the beleagured startup.<p>Uber has its fair share of problems right now. The CEO allegedly said that Uber should be called Boober for its ability to get him laid. The upper management can spy on the trips of its users with a privacy-busting “God View” app. The senior …

Livefyre today announced the release of Livefyre Studio, a major upgrade to its social content platform that pulls together its disparate apps into a single content management system (CMS).<p>Studio, which is rolling out to all customers, enables new real-time and automated management of …

Uber's latest hire -- the head of Google's same-day shopping service -- could help CEO Travis Kalanick realize his dream of delivering just about anything.<p>Uber may soon have its drivers delivering purchased goods as well as passengers.<p>The on-demand car service, which lets users hail a ride through …

<b>Editor’s note:</b> <i>Babs Ryan is a global strategic product innovation consultant using Agile. In her role as principal at ThoughtWorks, she oversees creating differentiating value propositions and products for brands, using lean enterprise continuous delivery for in-market releases in weeks.</i><p>In retail, …

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — Shubham Banerjee has invented a technology that could make printing Braille much, much cheaper, and he just raised a seed round to make his idea into a commercial reality.<p>Today, at an annual gathering of its portfolio companies here, Intel Capital announced that it is …

You can already use your phone to pay for your groceries and start your car – and soon, you’ll be able to use it to enter your hotel room too.<p>US-headquartered hotel chain Starwood just launched its new program, dubbed SPG Keyless, to allow guests across 10 Aloft, Element and W brand hotels in its …

Today, Parse is adding a new feature to its platform, Parse Push Experiments. The new tool now lets you easily create A/B tests for push notifications so you can study the analytics data and see what content or timing is most effective.<p>To try it, you just need to open up Parse’s push Web console …

Below is an infographic from ContactMonkey, a company that tracks emails after they've been sent. The company analyzed 30 million emails and discovered that the best way to get an outside (sales) email opened is to look like it came from inside.<p>If an email Subject starts with "Re:" or "Fwd:"people …

A few months ago I wrote a post called, A Simple Explanation Of The Internet Of Things where I tried to provide some clarity around what this new connected world means for all of us. In the article I mentioned some of the driving forces behind this.<p>“Broadband Internet is become more widely …

<i>Nate Munger is a Customer Success Advocate at Intercom. This post originally appeared on the Intercom blog.</i><p>An inherent challenge for all early stage startups is deciding whether to focus on growth or product/market fit.<p>It’s a false choice, as Rob Go says in his post about this conflict. They both …

Slowly but surely, many parts of the world are going cashless, and the effects go beyond quicker checkouts at supermarkets. A new app developed in the UK lets users donate to charities whenever they feel inspired to do so, by simply pointing their phones at a charity’s logo — on a poster, flyer, …

Working there was even the subject of a 2013 Hollywood comedy, the "Internship."<p>So someone posed a question on Quora recently that asked if working at Google really was like a recruitment video, where one person described it "like a big playground."<p>Or was working at Google was "over-rated"?<p>Answer: …

The telco industry has resisted change for years. That anti-innovation attitude, coupled with the rise of smartphones and fast data networks, provided ample opportunities for over-the-top startups to circumvent moribund and expensive telco offerings with VoIP and messaging apps that were both less …

Over the past decade, brand communication shifted to digital spaces in much larger shares, with many companies existing exclusively online. This has pushed design trends towards a simpler, more organized form of design – flat design – that is easily implemented via code, suited for every screen …

This handy app gives you a battery gauge, network monitor, calculator and more, all just a swipe away.<p>With the arrival of iOS 8, iPhone and iPad users gained support for widgets -- little mini-apps that appear in the Today menu when you swipe down from the top of the screen.<p>The operating system's …